The Board of Overseers at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis has just issued a statement. Predictably it condemns the sale. But it also calls on the Brandeis Trustees to revoke their decision and asks for a meeting with them “to find a solution consistent with the continued existence” of the museum.

“‘Extra’ sources hear that a couple of clubs in Las Vegas are aggressively pursuing and trying to contact ‘Bikini Girl’ to host a party at one of the nightclubs — and she could get up to $20K for the gig.”

Before I write about Discovery’s new series, The Detonators, I should disclose that I have a friend who writes for the show. But even if I didn’t, I believe I’d have to take some notice of it, simply because it is perhaps the perfect concept for Discovery in its adrenaline-driven, Old-Spice-manly, Deadliest Catch era.

In the latest issue of TIME magazine, former TIME managing editor Walter Isaacson (and the guy who hired me) makes the argument that for newspapers to survive, they need to begin charging for their online content.

It’ll be a while before I catch up on last night’s Damages, so I’ll leave this thread for any fans to discuss it. In last week’s (spoiler alert, if you’re behind) Tom and Ellen took a road trip and we discovered the killer of Daniel Purcell’s wife—not, because it turned out he was a volunteer fall guy in an elaborate ruse / …

Who knew that Tom Coburn, the Republican Senator from Oklahoma, took an (unwelcome) interest in the arts? Coburn has introduced an amendment to the Senate version of the stimulus package that would prevent any funds from that bill to go to the following laundry list of undeserving recipients:

…and I did not. But better late than never. This will be the first season 5 episode I haven’t seen in advance. It’s called “The Little Prince.” (A classic children’s book that, embarrassingly, I have never read, so I leave the extrapolation to you.) Jeff Jensen holds forth here. It appears to be Kate-and-Aaron-centric, and while I’m …

The website of the Iowa weekly Cityview is reporting that state legislators there are quietly talking about forcing the University of Iowa to sell Mural, the great Jackson Pollock owned by the University’s art museum. (A nod to Tyler Green at Modern Art Notesfor pointing up the Cityview item.)

“I screwed up.” If you needed more evidence that we had a new President, that admission to CNN’s Anderson Cooper, regarding the collapse of Tom Daschle’s nomination over unpaid taxes, should remind you. The Bush administration, from the top down, was adamant in its refusal to acknowledge mistakes, operating on the theory that certainty = …

It may have been possible for Picasso’s boy to lead that horse without a rein, but it appears that the Museum of Modern Art didn’t have the famous painting on as tight a leash as you might have thought. For more than a year that 1906 picture, one of the high points of MoMA’s collection, has been the focus of a Holocaust restitution …